While some conservative legislatures may still vote for it, liberal legislatures are rescinding their state’s decades-old support.
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Trump Targets the Legal Services Corporation
Another presidential assault on the courts and poor people—and another critical institution heedlessly threatened.
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The People’s Defense: Why Senators Must Reject Gorsuch
Activists have mounted an unprecedented grassroots campaign to reject Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
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Neil Gorsuch Must Answer the Questions Merrick Garland Was Denied
Democrats should require Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to respond to basic questions about his judicial philosophy and views on past cases.
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Supreme Court: Defendant’s Race Cannot Inform Sentencing
In October, we covered Buck v. Davis, a death penalty case that was being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Wednesday, February 22, the Court ruled in favor of convicted murderer and condemned prisoner Duane Buck and sent his case back to the appeals court. Procedurally, the case was a complicated mess, but it […]
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Upholding the Rule of Law
The appellate court informs the president that he can’t end-run the Constitution.
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Q&A: How Democrats Can Win the Voter Suppression Argument
Jason Kander, a rising Democratic star, is leading a new organization that hopes to turn the tables on Republican voter suppression.
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Warren Silenced: The Patriarchy Strikes Back
Effectively telling the progressive senator to sit down and shut up, the Senate majority leader played the card of an abuser.
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Why Democrats Should Block Gorsuch
In a rational political system, Democrats might keep their powder dry in the Supreme Court battle. But Republican extremism has made resistance Democrats’ only option.
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Starving Civil Rights In the Trump Era
Donald Trump is poised to defund the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and his Supreme Court pick bodes poorly for the future of civil rights.